Myos Hormos?
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: T. Wilfong, S.E. Sidebotham, J. Keenan
Creators: T. Wilfong, S.E. Sidebotham, J. Keenan
Contributors:
Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Adam Prins, Jen Thum, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, DARMC, Herbert Verreth, R. Talbert, Mark Depauw
Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Sep 17, 2023 07:55 PM
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History
Myos Hormos was a port on the Red Sea built by the Ptolemies in the third century BC.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/786069
26.156611, 34.24401
- Representative Locations:
- DARMC location 5037 (30 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10000 meters.
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- Μυὸς Ὅρμος (Muòs Hórmos: Ancient Greek, 30 BC - AD 300)
- Less than certain: Myos Hormos (30 BC - AD 640)
- Quseir (modern)
- Myos Hormos? connection Arabicus Sinus/Erythr(ae)um/Rubrum Mare (unspecified date range)
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None
settlement, port
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 80 E1 Myos Hormos?
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Quseir el-Qadim
T. Wilfong, S.E. Sidebotham, J. Keenan, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Adam Prins, Jen Thum, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, DARMC, Herbert Verreth, R. Talbert, and Mark Depauw, 'Myos Hormos?: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/786069> [accessed: 16 April 2024]
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